P Pbar to T Tbar H: A Discovery mode for the Higgs boson at the Tevatron

Goldstein, J.; Hill, C. S.; Incandela, J.; Parke, Stephen; Rainwater, D.; Stuart, D.

P Pbar to T Tbar H: A Discovery mode for the Higgs boson at the Tevatron

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The production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair at the upcoming high luminosity run (15 inverse fb integrated luminosity) of the Fermilab Tevatron (root s = 2.0 TeV) is revisited. For Higgs masses below 140 GeV we demonstrate that the production cross section times branching ratio for H->B Bbar decays yields a significant number of events and that this mode is competitive with and complementary to the searches using P Pbar -> WH, ZH associated production. For higher mass Higgs bosons the H -> W+ W- decays are more difficult but have the potential to provide a few spectacular events.
10 pages, Latex, RevTex, 3 ps figures: Updated reconstruction efficiency and figures